Simon Jackson

Non-Executive Director

B.COM FCA

Mr Simon Jackson was appointed to the Board as a Non-Executive Director in October 2021. Mr Jackson is Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee, and a member of the Remuneration Committee.

Skills, experience and expertise

Mr Jackson is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years’ experience in management of resource companies, particularly in Africa. Mr Jackson was a key member of the management team of TSX listed Red Back Mining Inc., a company that financed, developed and operated two gold mines in West Africa culminating in a takeover by Kinross Gold Corp in 2010. He was then founding President and CEO, and later Chairman, of TSXV listed Orca Gold Inc, a company which discovered the Block 14 gold project in Sudan, before it was taken over by Perseus Mining Limited in 2022.

He is currently Non-Executive Chairman of Predictive Discovery Limited which owns a producing gold mine and large development gold asset in Guinea.

Mr Jackson has previously been a director of multiple ASX and TSX listed companies.

Current listed directorships

Non-Executive Director of Sarama Resources Limited (appointed March 2011)
Non-Executive Chairman of Predictive Discovery Limited (appointed October 2021)
Non-Executive Director of Leeuwin Metals Limited (appointed June 2022)
Non-Executive Director of South Pacific Metals Corp (appointed March 2026)

Other current directorships/ appointments

None